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To Night Flashcards

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Swiftly walk o’er the western wave,

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  • Night personified
  • Apostrophised
  • Alliteration of ‘W’ (causing rhythm to speed up)
  • expressed as a wish
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Spirit of Night!

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  • Tone of praise
  • Night is portrayed as a deity
  • ”!” intensifies the speaker’s emotive plea.
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Out of the misty eastern cave,

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  • contrast

- Night comes from the East to set in the West (crosses oceans to be with the speaker)

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Where, all the long lone daylight,

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  • Alliteration of “L”

- daytime is long and lonely

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Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear,

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  • Paradox (the night brings beautiful dreams and nightmares)
  • The speaker is less lonely at night when he is alone
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Which make thee terrible and dear, –

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  • Paradox (continued for joy and fear)

- the night and the speaker are both complex (the poet suffered from depression)

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Swift be thy flight!
(End of stanza 1)
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  • Expressed as a wish
  • Night can be both blissful and frightening
  • Night offers comfort and fear
  • The speaker desires the Night due to his circumstance of depression
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Wrap thy form in a mantle gray,

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  • refers to the Night’s physical appearance
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Star-inwrought!

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  • refer’s to night’s physical appearance
  • Deify’s an element that is beautiful
  • a fabric that is intricately embroidered with a pattern
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Blind with thine hair the eyes of Day;

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  • Night’s hair blinds the personified Day
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Kiss her until she be wearied out,

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  • Personification (Night is a lover rather than a fighter)
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Then wander o’er city, and sea, and land,

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  • speaker wants Night to encompass all of his words
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Touching all with opiate wand –

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  • opium associated with sleep
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Come, long-sought!
(End of stanza 2)
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  • wish expressed
  • more urgent tone
  • speaker’s desire for the impending night
  • melancholy mood
  • day is tiring from night
  • night touches everything in its path
  • Night has magic properties or sleep providing respite
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When I arose and saw the dawn,

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  • disappointment by day
  • dawn is the end of night
  • compares night to its opposite
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I sighed for thee;

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  • disappointed
17
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when light rode high, the dew was gone,

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  • long, slow passing of day
18
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And noon lay heavy on the flower tree,

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  • unbearable length of day
19
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And weary Day turned to his rest,

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  • Day is tired of being day
20
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Lingering like an unloved guest,

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  • Alliteration of “L”

- Day is unloved (not the same beauty)

21
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I sighed for thee.
(End of stanza 3)
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  • The speaker has been wearied by Day
  • Speaker longs for the night
  • Sun begins to rise higher and higher (looming over the speaker)
  • Day is reluctant to leave
  • repetition of ‘I sighed for thee’ implies a mournful tone
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Thy brother Death came, and cried,

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  • night is linked to death
  • Alliteration of “C”
  • does not possess the same allure
23
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Wouldst though me?

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  • Personification of death

- speaker doesn’t want death

24
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Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy eyed,

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  • night is linked to sleep
  • Alliteration of “S”
  • does not have the same power as night
25
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Murmured like a noontide bee,

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  • it was like a bee rather than a god
26
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Shall I nestle near thy side?

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27
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Wouldst thou me? – And I replied,

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  • personified sleep
28
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No, not thee!
(End of stanza 4)
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  • firm tone
  • he wants night and night only
  • similarities of night to death and sleep
  • rejects death and sleep
  • sleep is innocent
  • onomatopoeia (murmured like a noontide bee)
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Death will come when thou are dead,

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  • death will come when night is no longer there
30
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Soon, too soon –

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  • his death will come too soon and take him away from the joy of the night
31
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Sleep will come when thou art fled;

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  • he sleeps during the day
32
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Of neither would I ask the boon,

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  • neither death nor sleep as beneficial
33
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I ask of thee, belovèd Night–

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  • night is loved
34
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Swift be thine approaching flight,

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  • wishes for Night’s quick arrival
35
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Come soon, soon!

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  • tone of yearning
  • contrast with death
  • he will resist death and sleep for as long as he can
  • death will come soon
  • no gift is wanted from death nor sleep
  • repetition from elsewhere in the poem amplifying the desire
36
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Overview

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  • ode to the night

- unexpected because poets usually praise the day and springtime.

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